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Brad
Selfish Heathen
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2022-01-12, 19:40

Maybe you can answer my curiosity, 709.

I never understood what was special in the digital world about Pantone color definitions. In my mind, they're just another needless abstraction on top of the underlying hex/decimal color codes for CMYK or RGB or HSV or any of the other digital encodings. Other than providing a reference for legacy color systems, what value does Pantone bring to modern digital graphics?

For that matter, what's to stop someone from hosting a bunch of "Pantone to CMYK/RGB/etc." lookup tables? I'm guessing Pantone is pretty litigious, though, from some vague memory I have of them attacking something that used some of their color names or codes, but is that pretty much it?

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